Quotes from Anne Rice

It was the horror of this world that a thousand evils were visited on those who were blameless and no one was ever punished, and side by side with the greatest promise was nothing but misery and want. Children mutilated to make a choir of seraphim, their song a cry to heaven that heaven did not hear.

Listen, keep your eyes wide,' Lestat whispered to me, his lips moving against my neck. I remember that the movement of his lips raised the hair all over my body, sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion.…

I have heard of you for a hundred years. I have dreamt of the moment when we would come upon each other. Satan has brought us together. Only to you would I give up my leadship. Come see my lair with its hundreds of skulls.

Cemetery. It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long.

They may be dreams of the feverish mind. They may be phantoms wrapped in the garments of memory.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ? Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!

I entrusted myself to his arms, I opened my lips to his, I bowed my head to press my face to his chest, and as I listened to his beating heart, I breathed deep, as if the very air had been denied to me until that moment.

Never had I seen Amadeo so obsessed with either love or misery, with either happiness or grief. But the man was stubborn, the man was drunk, and the man wanted one thing from this strange person prodding him and that was more wine.

El orgullo engendra siempre destrucción: el orgullo engulle vivos la mente y el corazón y el alma.

If I failed tonight, I would be another legend.

The thirteenth is simply the strongest, Rowan, the one who can be the doorway for this thing to come through. You are the doorway, Rowan. That is why there were twelve crypts, and not thirteen, in the tomb. The thirteenth is the doorway.

Your lair with its hundreds of skulls?" I repeated. "You think I wish to rule there? Tonight I've seen paintings of such beauty I can't describe them to you. Magnificent works rich in color and brilliance. The city surrounds me with its beautiful allurements.

That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you. He was really afraid that

Andrássy Út

Dicen que ninguno de nosotros cambia realmente con el paso del tiempo, que sólo nos volvemos más como somos.

Beautiful Marius," he said, as if he were far older than I would ever be. "Beautiful Marius who gave me Venice. Beautiful Marius, give me the Blood.

is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

that moment, the two sylphs in the forest, only nights

No te das cuenta? Yo no soy el espíritu de mi época. Tengo problemas con todo y siempre los he tenido. ¡Nunca me he sentido a gusto en ninguna parte ni con nadie!.

Maybe because I'd read the chronicles so avidly, I felt Lestat was as close to me as I was to him.

You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into mischief, to stir everything up and see if it won't boil over and if God won't come down and grab you by the hair.

The piano sang on in crashing cascades, the rapid notes melting as fast as they were born, so like the last thin snowflakes of the winter, vanishing before they strike the pavements.

You're too clever for your creed, my friend. Forsake it.